Victor Wooten Goes Metal?!

[Steve Woodcock]

Just seen this on Facebook, not what you usually hear from Vic!

http://youtu.be/rMtu1nyfUXM

[charic]

Very dream theater sound to it!

[ezbass]

Prog metal-tastic! Sounds like Liquid Tension Experiment.

[visog]

Yes all very well but the music in this clip didn't really use or show any of the Vic's character on the instrument. They may as well as had any math-metal bass player...

[lowdown]

[quote name='visog' timestamp='1473512360' post='3130893']
Yes all very well but the music in this clip didn't really use or show any of the Vic's character on the instrument. They may as well as had any math-metal bass player...
[/quote]

Well, a recent Basschat thread decided that Vic was rubbish (along with quite a few other players).
So why over expose him? Just hide him in the background.

[arthurhenry]

He has expressed an interest in doing some rock/metal stuff in the past.

[Graham]

[quote name='charic' timestamp='1473505235' post='3130790']
Very dream theater sound to it!
[/quote]

Isn't that Jordan Rudess on keys?

[ezbass]

[quote name='Graham' timestamp='1473514528' post='3130917']
Isn't that Jordan Rudess on keys?
[/quote]I thought that initially, but I don't think it is. Jordan is a bit more partly and white bearded these days IIRC.

[Painy]

[quote name='ezbass' timestamp='1473515007' post='3130922']
I thought that initially, but I don't think it is. Jordan is a bit more partly and white bearded these days IIRC.
[/quote]

He's certainly a lot more bald!

[ezbass]

[quote name='Painy' timestamp='1473516995' post='3130937']
He's certainly a lot more bald!
[/quote]Also true. He's definitely going for the Rudess look though.

What I can only assume is the inspiration for the above.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vi2IQNs8hlE

[LayDownThaFunk]

[quote name='visog' timestamp='1473512360' post='3130893']
Yes all very well but the music in this clip didn't really use or show any of the Vic's character on the instrument. They may as well as had any math-metal bass player...
[/quote]
He's out front you don't like him.
He's at the back you don't like him.

Give the guy a break!

[Lord Sausage]

[quote name='lowdown' timestamp='1473513415' post='3130904']
Well, a recent Basschat thread decided that Vic was rubbish (along with quite a few other players).
So why over expose him? Just hide him in the background.

[/quote]I thought everybody was sh*t!

[Chaos Daveo]

[quote name='ezbass' timestamp='1473505382' post='3130792']
Prog metal-tastic! Sounds like Liquid Tension Experiment.
[/quote]

It is, i quite like it..

[Musicman20]

Nope.

[jacko]

had a listen and while it's good to hear wooten not playing his usual slap w***ery solo sh*te, I can't help but think that Dream theater do it so much better (even with mangini)

[chris_b]

Not my taste but whatever VW does he does well and sounds good doing it.

[Dood]

Hmmmmm, I love my prog and great to see VW involved but the clip was too short to get me interested as it kinda sounds like stuff I was playing ten years ago or more.

[lowhand_mike]

heres the full video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_z-ZrQPfY5o

and vic gets his chance to shine but underpins it all really well, love this kind of stuff should listen to it a bit more

[Steve Woodcock]

A bit more has surfaced about this collaboration and it turns out Victor was a hired gun for this track:

“Octavision is not a band at all. We were all hired by Hovak Alaverdyan (the guitarist and composer) to play on one song. I love the song; I love the writing; and I loved the challenge of playing on it, but I don’t want to be misrepresented only to help promote it.”

[url="http://www.notreble.com/buzz/2016/09/15/victor-wooten-shares-on-his-role-in-octavision/"]http://www.notreble....-in-octavision/[/url]

Edited September 15, 2016 by Stickman

[thodrik]

I like Victor Wooten and I like metal. I don't like this metal.

[ivansc]

I couldnt even hear anything but the click of the kick, snare, cymbals and guitar... Pretty much yer normal metal sound I suppose